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...or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, for backup purposes. Sound Blaster 16 and Wave Blaster are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.The hardware on your card is against the law to change without the written permission of Creative Technology Ltd. MS-DOS, Windows, and the Windows logo... make one or more of the following U.S. Version 1.01 November 1996 Sound Blaster is furnished under a license agreement and may be used or copied only in any form or by Creative Technology Ltd. The software described in this manual may be reproduced or transmitted...
...or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, for backup purposes. Sound Blaster 16 and Wave Blaster are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.The hardware on your card is against the law to change without the written permission of Creative Technology Ltd. MS-DOS, Windows, and the Windows logo... make one or more of the following U.S. Version 1.01 November 1996 Sound Blaster is furnished under a license agreement and may be used or copied only in any form or by Creative Technology Ltd. The software described in this manual may be reproduced or transmitted...
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...Environment Variables B-3 SOUND Environment Variable B-4 BLASTER Environment Variable B-4 MIDI Environment Variable B-5 Understanding the Installation Program in Windows 3.1x B-5 The AUTOEXEC.BAT File Settings B-6 The CONFIG.SYS File Settings B-7 C Changing Audio Card Settings Enabling/Disabling Creative 3D Stereo Enhancement ... Interface C-5 In Windows 95 C-5 In MS-DOS/Windows 3.1x C-6 D Troubleshooting Problems Installing Audio Card Software from CD-ROM D-1 Problems with Sound D-2 Problems in MS-DOS D-3 Problems in Windows 3.1x D-4 Resolving Conflicts D-5 Resolving Conflicts in ...
...Environment Variables B-3 SOUND Environment Variable B-4 BLASTER Environment Variable B-4 MIDI Environment Variable B-5 Understanding the Installation Program in Windows 3.1x B-5 The AUTOEXEC.BAT File Settings B-6 The CONFIG.SYS File Settings B-7 C Changing Audio Card Settings Enabling/Disabling Creative 3D Stereo Enhancement ... Interface C-5 In Windows 95 C-5 In MS-DOS/Windows 3.1x C-6 D Troubleshooting Problems Installing Audio Card Software from CD-ROM D-1 Problems with Sound D-2 Problems in MS-DOS D-3 Problems in Windows 3.1x D-4 Resolving Conflicts D-5 Resolving Conflicts in ...
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... of Advanced WavEffects synthesis! It also has a physical model-based waveguide synthesizer which comes with high quality reverb. Your Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold audio card allows you to the exciting world of a Creative Sound Blaster® AWE64 Gold, a 16-bit audio card, which uses Sondius® Sound Synthesis technology to enable you to play many notes and different instruments or...
... of Advanced WavEffects synthesis! It also has a physical model-based waveguide synthesizer which comes with high quality reverb. Your Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold audio card allows you to the exciting world of a Creative Sound Blaster® AWE64 Gold, a 16-bit audio card, which uses Sondius® Sound Synthesis technology to enable you to play many notes and different instruments or...
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Select Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold and click the Add/Remove button. 4. Figure 2-5: The Add/Remove Programs Properties sheet. 3. The properties sheet similar to uninstall. 2-6 Installing Software in Windows 95 Follow the instructions on the screen to Figure 2-5 appears. To uninstall the applications: 1. Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. 2. Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon.
Select Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold and click the Add/Remove button. 4. Figure 2-5: The Add/Remove Programs Properties sheet. 3. The properties sheet similar to uninstall. 2-6 Installing Software in Windows 95 Follow the instructions on the screen to Figure 2-5 appears. To uninstall the applications: 1. Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. 2. Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon.
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...u 4 MB built-in DRAM Stereo Music Synthesizer u 4-operator 11-voice or 2-operator 20-voice stereo music synthesizer u Compatible with previous Sound Blaster and Adlib music synthesizer chips Stereo Digitized Voice Channel u Full duplex u 16-bit and 8-bit digitizing in stereo and mono modes u ... ISA Specification version 1.0a compliant Advanced WavEffects Synthesizer u 32-voice polyphony u 16 parts multi-timbral u 1 MB ROM of your audio card. Your audio applications may support only selected ranges of sampling rates. u High and Low DMA channels using a single interrupt for audio playback...
...u 4 MB built-in DRAM Stereo Music Synthesizer u 4-operator 11-voice or 2-operator 20-voice stereo music synthesizer u Compatible with previous Sound Blaster and Adlib music synthesizer chips Stereo Digitized Voice Channel u Full duplex u 16-bit and 8-bit digitizing in stereo and mono modes u ... ISA Specification version 1.0a compliant Advanced WavEffects Synthesizer u 32-voice polyphony u 16 parts multi-timbral u 1 MB ROM of your audio card. Your audio applications may support only selected ranges of sampling rates. u High and Low DMA channels using a single interrupt for audio playback...
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... (DMA) Channels A DMA channel is a data channel a device uses to transfer data directly to send or receive data for processing. Your card's audio interface transfers data through the Low and High DMA channels. Table B-2: Possible default IRQ line assignments. Table B-3: Possible default DMA channel ...5 Audio High DMA channel Understanding the Environment Variables Environment variables are used to pass information about how your audio card: u SOUND Environment Variable u BLASTER Environment Variable u MIDI Environment Variable Understanding the Installation B-3
... (DMA) Channels A DMA channel is a data channel a device uses to transfer data directly to send or receive data for processing. Your card's audio interface transfers data through the Low and High DMA channels. Table B-2: Possible default IRQ line assignments. Table B-3: Possible default DMA channel ...5 Audio High DMA channel Understanding the Environment Variables Environment variables are used to pass information about how your audio card: u SOUND Environment Variable u BLASTER Environment Variable u MIDI Environment Variable Understanding the Installation B-3
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...equal sign. B-4 Understanding the Installation Parameter Description Axxx Specifies the audio interface's base I /O address. Tx Specifies the card type. SOUND Environment Variable The SOUND environment variable specifies the directory location of your system. No space is allowed before and after the equal sign. Ix... drive and directory of the audio interface. The parameters in the command are described as follows: SOUND=path where path is : BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6 The values shown earlier may be 6. x defaults to 1. x defaults to 5. Hx Specifies the High ...
...equal sign. B-4 Understanding the Installation Parameter Description Axxx Specifies the audio interface's base I /O address. Tx Specifies the card type. SOUND Environment Variable The SOUND environment variable specifies the directory location of your system. No space is allowed before and after the equal sign. Ix... drive and directory of the audio interface. The parameters in the command are described as follows: SOUND=path where path is : BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6 The values shown earlier may be 6. x defaults to 1. x defaults to 5. Hx Specifies the High ...
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... PnP configuration manager. The AUTOEXEC.BAT File Settings The installation program adds the following statements to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file: SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6 SET SOUND=C:\SB16 SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0 C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S /W=C:\WINDOWS C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q C:\SB16\AWEUTIL /S The first ... environment variables for your audio card. INSTALL also allows you to selectively set up components that were not installed previously. You can also choose to set up your Windows applications at a later time by the DIAGNOSE utility, and the values shown above may differ from ...
... PnP configuration manager. The AUTOEXEC.BAT File Settings The installation program adds the following statements to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file: SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6 SET SOUND=C:\SB16 SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0 C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S /W=C:\WINDOWS C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q C:\SB16\AWEUTIL /S The first ... environment variables for your audio card. INSTALL also allows you to selectively set up components that were not installed previously. You can also choose to set up your Windows applications at a later time by the DIAGNOSE utility, and the values shown above may differ from ...
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...may discover that you can load them into memory by typing DIAGNOSE /A at the DOS prompt and pressing . The applications work with Creative Labs' Sound Blaster Developer Kit. See "Optimizing Memory Usage" on page 3-3 to learn how to optimize your audio software directory. The drivers are found in...under custom installation, the installation program also adds the following statements to the CONFIG.SYS file: DEVICE= C:\SB16\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1 H:5 DEVICE= C:\SB16\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS CTSB16.SYS and CTMMSYS.SYS are low-level device drivers that provide wave playback and...
...may discover that you can load them into memory by typing DIAGNOSE /A at the DOS prompt and pressing . The applications work with Creative Labs' Sound Blaster Developer Kit. See "Optimizing Memory Usage" on page 3-3 to learn how to optimize your audio software directory. The drivers are found in...under custom installation, the installation program also adds the following statements to the CONFIG.SYS file: DEVICE= C:\SB16\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1 H:5 DEVICE= C:\SB16\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS CTSB16.SYS and CTMMSYS.SYS are low-level device drivers that provide wave playback and...
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.... You can choose a higher value if the environment size is already 512 bytes. (Normally, the next value is used up the SOUND or BLASTER environment might not be found. Error message "Out of environment space". When you install your audio card's software, the commands are automatically... added to set up the BLASTER environment in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. ...
.... You can choose a higher value if the environment size is already 512 bytes. (Normally, the next value is used up the SOUND or BLASTER environment might not be found. Error message "Out of environment space". When you install your audio card's software, the commands are automatically... added to set up the BLASTER environment in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. ...
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Sound Blaster is a registered trademark of their respective owners. 17 All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of Creative Technology Ltd. Webphone is a trademark of the NetSpeak Corporation. Copyright © 1996 Creative Technology Ltd. Real Audio is a trademark of Progressive Networks. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Creative Technology Ltd.
Sound Blaster is a registered trademark of their respective owners. 17 All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of Creative Technology Ltd. Webphone is a trademark of the NetSpeak Corporation. Copyright © 1996 Creative Technology Ltd. Real Audio is a trademark of Progressive Networks. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Creative Technology Ltd.
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...half-duplex modes: u You cannot record a WaveSynth/WG MIDI playback because currently, the Sound Blaster hardware and driver do not support this mode, you can play back and record concurrently..., you cannot do so using uncompressed wave files, that suits your audio card. Due to these limitations, it currently has some constraints in both playback and recording...few years, hardware wavetable synthesis has been the high-end alternative to FM synthesis for Creative's sound system - And vice versa. With ever-increasing CPU power and Intel's new multimedia-extended...
...half-duplex modes: u You cannot record a WaveSynth/WG MIDI playback because currently, the Sound Blaster hardware and driver do not support this mode, you can play back and record concurrently..., you cannot do so using uncompressed wave files, that suits your audio card. Due to these limitations, it currently has some constraints in both playback and recording...few years, hardware wavetable synthesis has been the high-end alternative to FM synthesis for Creative's sound system - And vice versa. With ever-increasing CPU power and Intel's new multimedia-extended...
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... playback or recording is restricted to improve performance. u Wave playback is too slow (for Sound Blaster cards that Microsoft's Audio Compression Manager (ACM) supports. u Creative FastSpeech playback is not available. Microsoft, MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, and Windows 95 are some audio cards, WaveSynth/WG can record only an 8-bit wave file; All rights reserved. Half-Duplex...
... playback or recording is restricted to improve performance. u Wave playback is too slow (for Sound Blaster cards that Microsoft's Audio Compression Manager (ACM) supports. u Creative FastSpeech playback is not available. Microsoft, MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, and Windows 95 are some audio cards, WaveSynth/WG can record only an 8-bit wave file; All rights reserved. Half-Duplex...